Day 1

Feel I have to get my thoughts down somewhere to save all my friends and family from the daily clog of status updates and tweets, credit to Ben Levi. So here is my World Cup Dear Diaries.

Day 1

Headline of the day,

‘JUGO ROBINHO’ via Diario Ole.

Translating to, 'Robinho Played', hinting the referee, helped rob all three points.

Sad but true, Croatia deserved a point, if not could have got more. Fred and Referinho (credit to Anna Ole) must share the blame here. The former for not playing in the right spirit of the game, he could have easily stayed up and produced a shot on the turn, and the latter for being so easily fooled. 

Positively though, Neymar shone. Being allowed to roam free, he along with Oscar took the game to Croatia when Brazil looked flat. It must pose some thoughts and ideas to Barca of how to get more out of him. Was he too restricted this year? Maybe.

Croatia also must get a mention. Olic was a good outlet, and whats not to love about a Modric/Rakitic midfield. They also set up defensively very well and stifled the home team to the point of a Mexican wave going around. :o I love Mexican waves, and in continuing with my last suggested repercussion of Mexican Waves, Brazil should now be banned from holding international football matches..

To tomorrow

We are blessed. What a day of football. The World cup Final replay is sure to be 1000 passes vs an Orange Bus. And then the supposed belting of the Socceroos.

I hope Australia does well. Ange represents a positive change forward for football here. There is a chance. His attacking wing play style has a chance against a high line attacking Chile.

Brain Prediction, Chile 3 Aus 1

Emotional Prediction, Aus 2 Chile 1 (don’t laugh).

Last Thought

Marcelo, could not have happened to a nicer bloke. Well, maybe Pepe.